Songbird Source Released

Rinisari writes "The source for Songbird, a music-oriented XULRunner application, is now available via Subversion. Rob Lord, CEO of Pioneers of the Inevitable, released the source for the not-yet-0.2 version of the music player, which integrates a music library and the facility to purchase and download music from a variety of vendors. If you haven't heard of it, read the features list and try it out. Slashdot previously mentioned Songbird when it was released as a preview in February."

Comments

Sounds great

[Mensa Babe]

I remember when I read the internal memo, my first though was: great, this is the kind of software that we really need in the FOSS movement if we ever want to get to the profanum vulgus, or the masses if you will. But then one idea fix, or a thought if you will, started to dominate my mind. Are the FSF followers ever going to buy the idea, pun not intended, that buying the right to listen is even slightly less outrageous than being forced to buy your God given right to read, or even think, for that matter? Most probably we'll see piration enabled forks of that software in less than three months. Of course using subversion instead of cvs may and will slow down that forking process but this may be only the matter of time. This is, however, a great step in the right direction. That's what I told Rob back than and that's what I say now. We'll probably see some great development advance starting right now. So I say: Thanks! In the name of the entire Free Software movement.